Serious A1088 crash in West Suffolk on 27 October 2000 at 08:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1088 in West Suffolk at 08:15 on Friday 27 October 2000. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Oct 2000
- Friday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35572, longitude 0.80096, in the IP24 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200037B009390
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1088
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 31 May 2010
72 m awayRef 201037B045036
Serious
Lancia Dedra crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 1 June 2003
103 m awayRef 200337B016693
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 31 December 1980
130 m awayRef 1980373238500
Slight
Volvo 960 crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 20 September 1996
148 m awayRef 1996373306250
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 21 September 2011
178 m awayRef 2011370374511
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A1088 in West Suffolk, 26 July 2018
258 m awayRef 2018370320859
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200037B009390 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 2000.